This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, college readiness, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, race, class, and gender issues with additional focus at the national level.

Accountability for producing effective teachers and
principals with their graduation tied to improving student academic
achievement. Programs that fail to produce great teachers or principals
will be not be reauthorized. In return for accepting this
accountability, academies will be free from burdensome, input-based
regulations that are unrelated to student achievement.